If ETS is the danger that Health Canada and other
health groups claim it to be.

It should be a federal issue.

Not local or provincial.

At the very least, there should be a national,
indoor smoking ban.

It is beyond asinine to even suggest that ETS is
"the most dangerous form of pollution" that has no safe level of
human exposure to.

Ventilation, not prohibition is the sane solution
as opposed to indoor smoking prohibition within private businesses, that wish to
accommodate their valued, smoking customers.

All hospitality venues, including

smoke-free businesses should have improved
ventilation systems.

There are such systems that exist that can remove
up to 99% of ETS and other airborne pollution from a room.

Even if ETS were a health risk(totally unproven by,
solid, objective science)improved ventilation would be the answer,
not forced smoking bans.

Cooking carcinogens from stoves, fryers and grills
would also fall under unsafe human exposure levels as well.Workers should
be protected from these deadly toxins also, that is if you actually believe ETS
poses even a minor health risk.

Many hospitality businesses including smoke-free
ones have asbestos, mould spores and other forms of sick building
syndrome.

Unless all these proven health hazards are removed
I guess no worker or patron should be allowed to enter such a business until all
of these "deadly" toxins are removed.

Restaurants and bars that have fireplaces should be
forced to remove them.

They produce thousands of times the number of
carcinogens that a room full of tobacco smokers does.

Better ban them too.

The hospitality industry are fighting smoking bans
for good reason.

Smoking bans kill most hospitality industry venues:
DEAD!

It is laughable...

Everywhere smoking bans are introduced a good
number of hospitality venues take huge revenue hits and there are
bankruptcies.

Politicians who enact such bans or bylaws will
blame "everything under the sun" except the smoking bans they have championed,
as the cause for business losses and bankruptcies.Including claiming the
businesses owners and employees are incompetent.

This is a flagrant lie.Many of these businesses
were very successful for many years before the advent of forced smoking
bans.

You have to wonder if smoking bans are a conspiracy
between cooperate chains and local, state and provincial governments, to
put most small businesses under and give an even larger market share to
fast-food drive-thrus and take out restaurants.

If smoking bans really are so popular with
customers, owners would go smoke-free of their own choosing.

It wouldn't matter if tobacco companies have
conspired to fight smoking bans

(You are right about that, they have
indeed.)

The bottom line is smoking bans are not about
public, children's or workers health.

They are about social engineering.

To help people quit smoking and to force and
unwanted agenda upon an "unsavoury" portion of the population.

Much like "Out of sight, out of mind."

People who don't like the smell of tobacco smoke or
fear of ETS exposure for reasons of health, are not forced to visit or work in
such establishments.

There is no logical reason that smokers and
non-smokers cannot both be accommodated within the private hospitality
sector.

As long as tobacco remains a legal product forced
smoking bans with the private hospitality industry will be a very, difficult
sell.

When there were no smoking regulations back in the
early 1980s...

The anti-smoking movement made great
gains.

Most smokers did not mind not being allowed to
smoke in shopping malls, supermarkets, banks and most workplaces.

The hospitality industry is totally
different.

It is about accommodating the
customer.

The hospitality industry is the last refuge for
smokers.

Most smokers did not mind reasonable smoking
restrictions in true public places.

Privately owned hospitality businesses are not
public places.

The public can visit such establishments so long as
the abide by the rules of the business, it's owners and staff.

Such regulations as dress-codes, the right to
refuse service to rowdy or intoxicated patrons is at the private business
owner's choice.

So should smoking bans.

Smokers have been demonized and denormalized by the
media, our governments and the anti-smoking movement.

The hospitality industry is the last refuge for
smokers.

Don't expect them and business owners who rely on
their patronage to go down without a bitter fight.

Any city, state, province or country who wishes to
enact a 100% smoking ban within the private hospitality sector should lead by
example:

By banning the sales of all tobacco products within
their borders.

Because...It's not about the money,
right?

It's about health.

The HELL it is!

The governments do want Canadians to smoke, drink,
pay sin taxes and their prescription drugs.

They also want us to die, without ever having an
extended hospital stay, before we become eligible for retirement
pensions.

The government and health groups war on smoking is
anything but moral or ethical.

"Big tobacco are scum of the earth",to be
sure.

But they only seem like minor criminals compared to
the "big anti-tobacco" and governments.

The lies, misinformation and hysteria they promote
are blatant "hate crimes" as defined by the Canadian Charter Of
Rights.

By promoting hatred through specious, anti-smoking
campaigns our governments are in violation of our constitution.

To even allow the sales of such an "evil" product
that kills and injures so many people is akin to murder.

Our governments are guilty of these
crimes.

The real solution:

Ban smoking outright.

Or shut the hell up.

That is what these bastards should do.

One problem: Greed prevents them.

You can crow on about all the "big tobacco"
conspiracy theories you want to.

Some of them are very, true.

Keep in mind though:

What our governments and health groups are doing to
the "poor, wretched, addicted smokers is inhuman.

To cry that smokers are"victims of big tobacco" and
then to overtax these "victims" and ostracize the smokers, while reaping huge
tax revenues from tobacco "blood money" is hypocritical and
unforgivable.

Those who act so piously and that show blatant
disrespect to the rights of others in this society should be
punished.

It's hard to believe a single word that our
governments and anti-tobacco groups say, regarding smoking or
tobacco.

They have "one-upped" "big tobacco."

In fact since 75% of the total price of a package
of cigarettes is federal or provincial tax...

Our governments are in fact, the senior partners of
the tobacco industry.